Freikorps

The Freikorps were German volunteer units that were most famous for their role in the early 1920s fighting against the new Weimar Republic and leftist groups such as the Spartacists, Bavarian Soviet Republic, and even the Soviet Union during the German Revolution and the Russian Civil War. The Freikorps roamed the countryside and killed with impunity, fighting against republican loyalists and triggering notorious assassinations, serving as a precursor to the Nazi Party. The Freikorps put down communist insurrections both back home in Bavaria and Berlin as well as in East Prussia, Silesia, Poland, and the Baltics, and they were racist against Slavs and Jews, and they were officially disbanded in 1920.